Bitrise vs Fabric

Bitrise vs Fabric: What are the differences?

Bitrise: Automate your mobile app development from building through testing to deployment. In short Bitrise is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step; Fabric: Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment. Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution..

Bitrise can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Continuous Integration" category, while Fabric is grouped under "Server Configuration and Automation".

"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 10 developers like Bitrise, while over 19 developers mention "Python" as the leading cause for choosing Fabric.

Fabric is an open source tool with 11.4K GitHub stars and 1.73K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Fabric's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Fabric has a broader approval, being mentioned in 147 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Bitrise, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.